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grossmechligisten fürsten und frawen fraw leonaren Römischen Kaiserin.. von latin zü teütsch gepracht in geschenckt ist worden, etc. lit. goth. beginning of first page in red, long lines, 22 to a full page (108 ll. without marks), 104 spirited outline German woodcuts and Gothic initials, 2 cuts very slightly damaged, and inner margin of last leaf renewed, otherwise in good state, with contemporary MS. textual corrections in German, contemporary German binding of oak boards and pigskin, with stamped foliage, small stamps of fleur-de-lis, suns and sunflowers, metal clasp, in a new vellum open case

sm. 4to. [Colophon] Das..büchlin hat getruckt und volenndet JOHANNES BÄMLER ZÜ AUGSPURG am freitag in der andern vast Wochen. Anno, etc. In den siben cũ sibentzigisten Jar [1477]

*** EXTREMELY RARE, VERY FEW COPIES BEING KNOWN, perfect or imperfect. The remarkable woodcuts are of the Augsburg school. The representation of a Hunting Scene on folio eight may easily be regarded as the earliest woodcut of the subject.

The Property of J. W. Goodford, Esq.

Chilton Cantelo House, Yeovil.

135 HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS AD USUM ECCLESIAE PARISIENSIS, CUM CALENDARIO, ET MULTIS ORATIONIBUS, ETC. [ANGLOFRENCH, XIVTH CENTURY.] RICHLY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (250 ll. 7월 by 51⁄2 in.), finely written in bold gothic letters, long lines, 14 to a full page, red rubrics in Latin and French; full Calendar in French in gold, blue and red; every page surrounded by borders of illuminated spiked ivy-leaves interspersed with figures of angels playing musical instruments, grotesques issuing from flowers, etc.; small diptych miniatures of the Occupations of the Months and the Signs of the Zodiac in the lower margins of the Calendar; many hundred fine illuminated initials with inner decorative borders and textual ornaments, 29 small initial miniatures of Evangelists, Saints, etc.; 11 LARGE, FINELY PAINTED AND RICHLY ILLUMINATED MINIATURES, some arched, some square, WITHIN REMARKABLE DEEP AND ELABORATE DECORATIVE BORDERS OF FLOWERS, FOLIAGE, BIRDS, SEMI-HUMANS, GROTESQUES, ANGELS WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, etc. old French boarded red velvet (17th Cent.) sm. 4to. SÆC. XIV THIS MS. IS A FINE SPECIMEN OF FRENCH DECORATIVE ART OF THE LATE XIVTH CENTURY, WITH EVIDENT ENGLISH INFLUENCE. The borders are very interesting for the figures of angels, scholars reading books, mummers, etc. These figures number 444. The angels are chiefly clothed in white blouses drawn in outline, and the musical instruments upon which they are playing represent

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probably all those known at the time the MS. was decorated, in reed, brass and string. Bagpipes, horns, bassoons, trumpets, violins, flutes, harp, drums and bells are employed. The grotesque figures are chiefly drawn in red and blue, some with red republican caps, and most have the lower parts of their bodies hidden in flowercups. The birds represented in the borders include peacocks and owls, and birds of gorgeous plumage. The subjects depicted in the large miniatures are the following: 1, The Annunciation ; 2, The Visitation, the Deity in heaven blessing; 3, The Nativity; 4, The Shepherds (diapered background, the angel above); 5, Flight into Egypt; 6, Death of the Virgin; 7, The Crucifixion (Christ alone, with Mary and John, the Deity above blessing); 8, Pentecost; 9, Vigil of the Dead (an interior); 10, The Trinity (a chequered background); 11, Madonna and Infant Jesus, an angel offering lilies from a vase, diapered background. It has an illuminated title in front, written in the 17th century: Office de l'Eglise et autres Prières 14 Siècle."

[See ILLUSTRATION.]

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HORAE B. V. M. Secundum Consuetudinem Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, cum Calendario. [ANGLO-FRENCH, XIVTH CENTURY.] ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM (86 ll. 74 by 5 in.) [IMPERFECT], written in bold gothic letters, long lines, 18 to a full page, Calendar in Latin in red and black, red rubrics, illuminated initials and textual decorations, 15 LARGE PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED MINIATURES within rich decorative floral borders, representing SS. Anthony, Sebastian, Barbara, Pentecost, Crucifixion, The Virgin suckling the Infant Christ, The Annunciation, Visitation, The Nativity, Shepherds, Offerings of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Christ as Judge, and a Funeral Service, old French thick boarded red velvet sm. 4to. SÆC. XIV

The Property of a Lady.

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HORAE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS AD USUM GALLICANUM, cum Calendario et multis precibus. [FRENCH, XVтн-XVITH CENTURY.] ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON THIN VELLUM (200 II. 5 by 34 in.), written in lettres bâtardes, long lines, 25 to a full page, full Calendar in blue, red and gold, blue rubrics, outer decorative borders to the Calendar, with small miniatures of the Occupations of the Months, the Signs of the Zodiac in separate small miniatures in lower margins, many pages with decorative borders, 12 small miniatures of Evangelists and Saints, 4 separate full-length figures in outer margins, numerous ornamental initials and textual decorations, 13 LARGE FINELY PAINTED AND RICHLY ILLUMINATED SEMI-ARCHED MINIATURES surrounded by beautiful decorative borders of foliage in which are introduced birds and